³ and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.^(A)

¹⁰ For even when we were with you,^(A) we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work^(B) shall not eat.”

¹¹ We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.^{(C) 12} Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ^(D) to settle down and earn the food they eat.^(E)

¹¹ To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.^(A)

¹² We work hard with our own hands.^(A) When we are cursed, we bless;^(B) when we are persecuted,^(C) we endure it;